Get to an Actual Person Immediately

Calling technical support or any other service is frustrating especially if you will have to press lots of numbers just to get to someone that you can speak to. It happened to me the last time I called my internet service provider. I asked me to press this and that but it didn't helped me at all because in the end, I ended up in the wrong department. It did a great job making me more frustrated aside from the issue that I'm having which is already giving me enough headache. I found this site online which you might find interesting because they have a database which contains list of secret phone numbers and codes which will get you to an actual person immediately. All you have to do is go to gethuman.com and search for the company that you are looking for.

Mouse Potato's Mozzila Firefox tips

There are lots of web browsers that are out today. One of those browsers is Mozzila Firefox and it’s a popular one aside from the usual Microsoft Internet Explorer. Since I noticed that most users nowadays are using firefox, I decided to put up some tips that might help those users.
- Like in Internet explorer, you can view a window in a full screen mode by pressing the F11 key. Press the same key (F11) to return to how it was.
- A lot of internet users have sites that they usually visit. You can access the sites that you usually visit in just two clicks. All you have to do is to create a folder in your bookmarks that contains the webpages that users visit daily. Right-click that folder and click “Open in Tabs” so that you can get all your favorites in the folder opened in a new tab.
- You can quickly scroll one page at a time by pressing the space bar. Move back a page at a time by pressing the shift + spacebar key.
- You can access full configuration menu by typing "about:config" in the address bar. Opening this window can help you change a lot of different settings. Pressing Ctrl + T will help you open up a new window. Press and hold CTRL + # where # is 1-9 to be able to switch between tabs in the open window. Holding down the CTRL key while clicking on the link in an ooen page will open that link in a tab.
- You can save any media including embedded content to an alternate source. This can be done by right-clicking on a page click "view Page Info". Click the media tab, locate the media file you wish to save and click the save as button.
- Pressing the F6 key will quickly get you to the address bar.
- Press CTRL + Shift + T to undo a close tab. Pressing this more than once will undo multiple closed tabs.

Bookmark any web page form field and quickly access it from the browser address bar. Below is an example of how you could bookmark the Computer Hope search and quickly search for help anytime .
1. Right-click on the search box in the top left portion of this window.2. Click "Add a keyword for this search".3. In the Add bookmark window, type any name or leave it blank and for the keyword make it something simple and easy to remember. For example, "CH" for "Computer Hope" and click Ok.
Now in your address bar you can type: "CH " and then anything you need help with. For example typing: "CH motherbaord" would open the search results for motherboard.

Bookmark almost any search engine and have the capability of using it anywhere by following the below simple steps.
Right-click within the text box you wish to bookmark and click "Add a keyword for this Search.."
Enter a name for the bookmark and then a keyword you wish to use. For example, if you were doing this in computer hope you could type "ch" as your keyword and then click Ok to create the bookmark.
Once created in the URL bar type your keyword and what you wish to search for. For example, if you used "ch" as your keyword and wanted to search for Firefox you'd type: "ch firefox".

Google Bought Korean Blogging Software

Google Inc bought Korean blogging software Tatter and Company. Tatter owns a blogging platform named “Textcube” which is said to be the most popular among Korean bloggers. The said deal was announced by co-chief executive Chang-Won Kim on his personal blog titled “We’ve got Googled!” Korea has the ninth-highest numbers of internet users in the world according to Internet World Stats. Blogs are sometimes referred to as online journals where bloggers/people write their opinions and other things on the net.

Shortcut Keys

It is really good if you can do anything easily. So I prepare some keyboard shortcut keys that you can use. I hope you may find this article helpful. J

Shortcut Keys
Alt + F - File menu options in current program.
Alt + E - Edit options in current program
F1 - Universal Help in almost every Windows program.
Ctrl + A - Select all text.
Ctrl + X - Cut selected item.
Shift + Del - Cut selected item.
Ctrl + C - Copy selected item.
Ctrl + Ins - Copy selected item
Ctrl + V - Paste
Shift + Ins - Paste
Home - Goes to beginning of current line.
Ctrl + Home - Goes to beginning of document.
End - Goes to end of current line.
Ctrl + End - Goes to end of document.
Shift + Home - Highlights from current position to beginning of line.
Shift + End - Highlights from current position to end of line.
Ctrl + Left arrow - Moves one word to the left at a time.
Ctrl + Right arrow - Moves one word to the right at a time.

Preventing Computer from Internet Vermin (Virus and Spyware)

Now that internet vermin is everywhere, it is really important that we know what a virus and spyware are. It is necessary that we know how to avoid this types of vermin and how we can minimize the risk of our computer.

Let’s talk about virus and Anti-virus programs. A virus is a piece of code that is loaded in your computer without your knowledge. All types of virus is dangerous even a simple virus because it will use all the available memory to bring the system down. Even more dangerous are the types of virus that can transmit itself across networks by bypassing security systems. You can protect your system from viruses by installing an antivirus program. It will scan your hard drives for viruses and will fix or isolate any threats that it will find.

Sypware is software that gathers the user information through internet connection without the user’s knowledge. This is something that we all should be careful because it can also gather information about the user’s email address, passwords, and credit card numbers (scary). They gather information in your system using the system’s memory resources and eating bandwith as it sends information back to the spyware’s homepage using the user’s internet connection. And to avoid this issue, use an antispyware program. Antispyware is designed searches the hard drive for traces of known spyware and delete it once found.

Maintenance Tips:
· Keep your programs and operating system up-to-date.
· Always update the virus/spyware definitions to ensure that your system is protected against latest threats.
· Of course, install antivirus/antispyware program in your computer.
· Make sure that the files that you are downloading off the internet are spyware free.
· Normally viruses are transmitted using emails, so you have to make sure that you don’t open email attachment that was sent by someone you don’t know especially with the file that has “exe” file extension.

Hate Pop-ups?

Browsing the net is sometimes really frustrating with all those ads popping up on the screen. So here’s some information that will help you solve this kind of issues. I’ve written down list of widely used program that will help prevent pop-up, pop-under, or other types of advertising on the net.

Microsoft Internet users:
For those who are using Internet Explorer 6.0, there’s a pop-up blocker included in the browser and all you have to do is to enable it. If you wish to enable to pop-up blocker, follow these steps.
1. Open Internet Explorer
2. Click Tools
3. Click Options
4. Click the Privacy tab
5. At the bottom of the Privacy tab you should have a Pop-up Blocker section. If you wish pop-ups to be blocked check the "Block pop-ups" option. You can also set additional settings such as disabling the sound when a pop-up is blocked or disable the information bar displayed when a pop-up is blocked by clicking the Settings button.

And for those who are using the earlier versions of internet explorer, here’s what you can try. You can use a google toolbar because it includes free pop-up blocker. Or, there are lots of third party software that you can use that can help you prevent pop-ups from occurring.

PanicWare Pop-up Stopper : http://www.panicware.com/
PopUp Cop: http://www.popupcop.com/
NoAds: http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds
Smasher: http://www.popupstop.com/

Firefox users:
Firefox includes its own pop-up blocker. If you need to block pop-ups from coming out, here’s what you have to do:
1. Open Mozilla Firefox
2. Click Tools
3. Click Options
4. Click the Web features button on the left hand side of the Options window.
5. By default this feature should be enabled if you wish to disable the feature, uncheck "Block Popup Windows." If you have allowed popups on a site you wish to now block you can also click "Allowed sites" in this window and remove any sites you wish to block any popup on.
6. Or you can disable pop-ups from any browser plu-ins. Here’s how…Open Mozilla Firefox
7. In the URL field type "about:config" and press enter.
8. This should open the Firefox config window.
9. Right-click on a black portion of the window and click "New" and then "Integer"
10. For the preference name type "privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins" and click Ok.
11. For the value type "2"

Then locate the “privacy.popups.firstTime” option and its also in about:config screen and change the value of this to “false.

Netscape users:
Netscape 7.1 or higher has the pop-up blocker enabled already by default and you can access its settings by doing the following steps.
1. Open Netscape
2. Click Tools
3. Click Popup Manager
4. Within the Popup Manager you can adjust the settings of how you want popups to be blocked.

Opera users:
Same thing with Opera, pop-up blocker is already enabled by default. To access its settings, follow these steps.
1. Open Opera
2. Click Tools
3. Click Quick preferences
4. Within the Quick preferences menu you will have options to "Open all pup-ups", "Open pop-ups in background", "Block unwanted pop-ups", and "Block all pop-ups."
So there are ways on how we can prevent those pop-ups. All you have to do is follow these easy steps. I hope that you find this article helpful.

DELL's 24 inch Full HD Monitor

I was searching online when I saw this new monitor from dell. I can imagine myself playing or even watching movie on my computer with that monitor. I guess it’s really good. The LCD monitor that I’m talking about is the one offered by DELL. It has a high quality resolution which is a Full HD 1920x1080 resolution (woah!). It’s just that I’m amazed with it. It is good for gaming too because it has a fast response time and that is 5ms which is good for someone like me and not just for gaming it’s good for video editing too. I just wish that I can buy one of these monitor. I’ve been trying to save as much money as I can just to be able to but something like this and I hope I will be able to have this before the year ends.

Desktop or Notebook Computer...

Desktop or notebook computers?. Most of us has different type of needs that is why it choosing the right computer definitely depends on what your needs are. Let’s put it this way if you want to play games, then you shouldn’t purchase a DVD player. It’s as simple as that. But they are both computers? Yes, you are right about that. Well they have differences which will answer different needs. Let’s say for example if you are a business man and you will have to always have your computer by your side, definitely you won’t think of bringing a desktop with you because that will be completely ridiculous unless you are willing to carry the CPU/tower plus the monitor all by yourself. If you are a business man, a student, or someone who will need to always have a computer by your side, a notebook is the one for you. Desktop is a good home or office computer since you can easily customize it unlike laptop computers. They both can do the same thing it’s just that it depends on your needs. Laptops are quite expensive than desktops because of the parts used in building laptop. It a good thing that most of the computer manufacturers offers customized system and some of them gives you an option to customer your system yourself which will help you purchase a system that would fit your need like Dell computers.